The Sound of Silence: Moving with T

by Carol R. Murphy

Overview

There are two directions of the meditating mind � a focusing down to an intense point of contemplation, or a wide-angle vision which does not so much shut out the world of the senses as mirror it clearly and love it without clinging. This latter is the meditative way that appeals to an alert and noticing mind while promising to reduce the tendency to reverie or anticipation. Of the kinds of practice that follow this way, one � a Chinese method called T�ai Chi Ch�uan, is a moving meditation that also disciplines the restless body.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149399703
Publisher:	Pendle Hill Publications
Publication date:	04/04/2014
Series:	Pendle Hill Pamphlets , #205
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	30
File size:	105 KB

About the Author

Life has a way of challenging one�s intellectual conclusions by presenting raw experience, as if to say, �You�ve talked about this long enough; now handle this if you can.� A few years ago Carol Murphy wrote a pamphlet entitled The Valley of the Shadow; subsequently there was a death in the family which provided a vivid reality containing both dark and glorious moments. Though the long hospital vigil did not belie her previous writing, she could now begin to understand why St. Thomas Aquinas, after his mystical enlightenment, declared that his theologizing was just straw.
The author of a round dozen of Pendle Hill pamphlets, Carol has written much on meditation, a process which drew her in theory and eluded her in practice. Recently she was presented with an opportunity to work in earnest on T�ai Chi Ch�uan � the Chinese art of meditation in movement. Could she stop being the chronic spectator, the thinker about, and for once do it? The present pamphlet tells the story.